"My credentials are in part a lingering amateurism; that is to say, a love that resists too much learning. I have always avoided acquiring more erudition than was necessary. A little learning is a good thing, but too large a learning begets a taste for more and more, and before you know it, the ambition to know overcomes the desire to do, first embarrassing it, then bullying it into hiding."
Excerpt from Notes On The Piano by Ernst Bacon
A few nights back I was thinking about how wonderful it is that individual notes can be made part of both major and minor chords. One of my first non-chess metaphors for life, thank you very much.
Tracklist:
1. Rusty's Theme
2. Not Your Girl
3. Qualifying Exam in G Minor
4. Ageless
5. Strongman At The Circus
6. Cooper's Theme
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Rusty, one of the chickens I've been tending to this summer, lays the most delicious eggs. Given all her hard work to produce my breakfast, I decided to thank her with a theme song:
As I sit here considering my upcoming performance for the TNO at Kenny's Castaways (4/21), I'm thinking of how to simply and effectively back myself on stage. That is to say, how can I alone influence a backing track or tone that follows not only the notes I'm playing but also the rhythm?
I've seen shows (well, openers for shows) where the musician strums along to an MP3 playing in the monitor. It's a cute notion, sort of playing along to your own song. But what I have in mind is something reliably maleable - it doesn't exist before you begin playing and it dies out after you stop. It's a bit like reverb but it exists a half second before you play the corresponding note. And herein lies the mystery: how to have the computer anticipate your sound and rhythm.
Though I've only just begun pondering this, my first thought is to allow a significant delay in the monitor. This delay would allow the computer (or effects pedal - whatever it may be) to process the sound from the previous second or 2 and slide out it's results a fraction of a second before the musician's input is broadcasted to the speakers.
Yes / No? Probably no.